Immortality DefendedMight we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all of three separate ways.
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A. C. Ewing actual existence afterimage afterlife annihilation atoms believe Big Bang brain Brandon Carter causal color complex conscious considered cosmic create creative ethical requiredness creative power Derek Parfit divine mind divine person divine reality divine thinking divine thoughts Einstein Einsteinian electrons elements entire cosmos entity ethical need ethical requirement evidence existentially unified existing things experience explain fact fine-tuning four-dimensional existence idea immensely Infinite Minds instance intelligent interact intricately structured J. J. C. Smart J. L. Mackie John Polkinghorne Keith Ward life-permitting living Lockwood logical look Mackie matter mental necessity never Nicholas Rescher observational selection orderly pantheistic particles patterns perhaps philosophers photons picture Plato’s theory Platonic creation story plausible possible principle qualia quantum computers realm reason regions sense single existent sort Spinoza suggest Suppose Timothy Sprigge trillion trillion trillion truth unity universe universe’s Value and Existence various what’s words world exists